ELEMENT of MULTIMEDIA

1) Text - involves the use of text types, sizes, colours and

background colour.
2) Graphic devided – i) Bitmaps images are real images
that can be captured from devices such as cameras
or scanners.
ii)Vector graphics are drawn on the computer and
only require a small amount of memory.
3) Audio devided - i) Analog audio - original sound signal.
ii) Digital audio - digital sampling of the actual
sound.

The sound used in multimedia is digital audio.

We can record analog audio file. We can use special audio
editors like Sound Forge to convert analog audio files into
digital audio files

4) Video - provides a powerful impact in a multimedia

program

5) Animation - process of making a static image look like it

is moving. In multimedia, digital animation is used.
Digital animation can be categorised
–i) 2D (2 Dimension) animations.
-ii) 3D (3 Dimension) animations.

STANDARD FILE FORMATS FOR EACH ELEMENT

Animation files :
Text files : *.swf, *.gif, *.swi
*.doc, *.txt, *.rtf
Audio files :
*.wav, *.midi, Video files :
Graphic files : *.avi, *.mov,
*.aif /*.aiff, *.jpg, *.gif,
*.au,*.wma *.mpeg, *.wmv
*.tiff, *.bmp,
*.png,*.psd